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Bug 2187587 - file tool / library returns the wrong mimetype for certain gzip files
Summary: file tool / library returns the wrong mimetype for certain gzip files
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: file
Version: 8.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vincent Mihalkovič
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-04-18 04:25 UTC by Daniel Alley
Modified: 2023-09-20 23:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-09-20 23:25:47 UTC
Type: Bug
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pm-rhel: mirror+

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gzip file (2.01 KB, application/gzip)
2023-04-18 04:25 UTC, Daniel Alley 		no flags Details
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Red Hat Issue Tracker   RHEL-5722 0 None Migrated None 2023-09-20 23:25:44 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-155005 0 None None None 2023-04-18 04:28:23 UTC

Description Daniel Alley 2023-04-18 04:25:58 UTC 
Created attachment 1957931 [details]
gzip file

Description of problem:

When using the `file -i` command or the file library (more details on that case here: [0]), for some gzip files and not others, the result seems to be incorrect, even though the gzip file has a valid "magic number" identifier value just like any other.

[0] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c/issues/353

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

From RHEL 8 until recent versions of Fedora.  I haven't tested RHEL 7 or 9 specifically.

How reproducible: Very

Steps to Reproduce:

Take the attached gzip file, run file -i af12533499469117e3824bc938bfc3208539deb44bbf56ec2612fc383b28a1f4-primary.xml.gz

Actual results:

The response "application/octet-stream; charset=binary" is incorrect.  A second person tried to reproduce this on Fedora 39 (rawhide) and got a different incorrect result: 

$ file af12533499469117e3824bc938bfc3208539deb44bbf56ec2612fc383b28a1f4-primary.xml.gz 
af12533499469117e3824bc938bfc3208539deb44bbf56ec2612fc383b28a1f4-primary.xml.gz: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x4b, active 0xd0, start-CHS (0x63,239,44), end-CHS (0x33d,134,0), startsector 316955931, 1708404748 sectors; partition 3 : ID=0x53, active 0xaa, start-CHS (0x33a,156,2), end-CHS (0x22c,176,51), startsector 1315648692, 2595702924 sectors; partition 4 : ID=0x3a, active 0xca, start-CHS (0x1d5,97,37), end-CHS (0x28b,241,55), startsector 2173204403, 2875341233 sectors
$ rpm -q file-libs
file-libs-5.44-3.fc39.x86_64



Expected results:

"application/gzip; charset=binary"
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